One killed, two seriously injured in Hwy. 441 wreck

Two men were seriously injured and one was killed in an early morning wreck on U.S. Highway 441 just south of Nicholson, according to Steve Nichols, director of emergency services for Jackson County.

Jackson County fire and rescue crews, sheriff’s deputies and Georgia State Patrol troopers responded at about 3 a.m. Friday to a one-car wreck on U.S. 441 near Shiloh Road. A mid-sized silver car carrying four men in their mid-20s was traveling north, but left the roadway and overturned several times, Nichols said.

One of the men was not injured in the crash, Nichols said. Ambulances took the three others to Athens Regional Medical Center, he said.

One man died from injuries he received in the crash, and one of the men was hospitalized in critical condition. The third, a Nicholson resident, was treated and released Friday morning.

Firefighters and emergency personnel on the scene could not identify the make, model or license plate information on the silver car because the vehicle was so damaged.

Troopers with the patrol’s Athens post still are investigating the cause of the wreck. Neither Nichols nor the on-duty operator at the Georgia State Patrol on Friday afternoon had the names of the people in the car.